The former royal editor of the now-defunct News of the World warned his managing editor he was aware that if payments to his confidential sources were traced they would all be jailed, the phone-hacking trial has heard.

Young actor Harry Hadden-Paton, godson of Fergie, Duchess of York, is coming to the end of the run of the acclaimed play The Pride at the Trafalgar Studios. Old Etonian Hadden-Paton recently became a father and he’ll soon have time to spend with his family but don’t expect to bump into them all at Hyde Park’s annual Christmas extravaganza Winter Wonderland.

And now the latest victim of high-level email scams. Friends of James Lascelles, second son of the late Earl of Lord Harewood, the Queen’s first cousin and boss of the English National Opera, have received a message saying he lost his wallet in the Philippines and needed £2,450. But now there is good news.

Terrorists around the world have been moving to less vulnerable communication methods in the wake of disclosures by the former US intelligence operative Edward Snowden, the head of listening post GCHQ has warned.